To celebrate the Oscars, I am pleased to announce the Best of 2018 nominees and winners in fourteen categories. I selected the top five picks in the following categories: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress,  Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Documentary, Best Animated Feature, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Original Score.

*Indicates Winner

BEST PICTURE

  • Burning 
  • The House That Jack Built 
  • ✓  Roma 
  • Shoplifters 
  • Suspiria 

BEST DIRECTOR

  • Lee Chang-dong, Burning 
  • ✓ Alfonso Cuarón, Roma  
  • Luca Guadagnino, Suspiria 
  • Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here
  • Lars von Trier, The House That Jack Built 

BEST ACTOR

  • Christian Bale, Vice
  • Bradley Cooper, A Star is Born
  • ✓  Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate 
  • Matt Dillon, The House That Jack Built 
  • Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody

BEST ACTRESS

  • ✓  Yalitza Aparicio, Roma 
  • Glenn Close, The Wife
  • Olivia Colman, The Favourite
  • Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
  • Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  • Mahershala Ali, Green Book
  • Steve Buscemi, Lean on Pete 
  • Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
  • Josh Hamilton, Eighth Grade
  •   Steven Yeun, Burning 

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  • Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
  • Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace
  •  Natalie Portman, Vox Lux 
  • Emma Stone, The Favourite
  • Rachel Weisz, The Favourite

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

  • Wes Anderson, Isle of Dogs 
  • Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
  • Alfonso Cuarón, Roma 
  •  Hirokazu Kore-eda, Shoplifters 
  • Lars von Trier, The House That Jack Built

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

  •  Lee Chang-dong, Burning 
  • Andrew Haigh, Lean on Pete 
  • Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, Leave No Trace 
  • David Kajganich, Suspiria 
  • Lynne Ramsay, You Were Never Really Here 

BEST DOCUMENTARY

  •  Free Solo
  • Minding the Gap
  • RGB
  • Three Identical Strangers
  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

  • Incredibles 2
  •  Isle of Dogs
  • Mirai 
  • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
  • Ralph Breaks the Internet 

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 

  • Cold War, Łukasz Żal
  • The Favourite, Robbie Ryan
  • Let the Sunshine In, Agnès Godard
  •  Roma, Alfonso Cuarón 
  • Suspiria, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom

BEST EDITING 

  • The Favourite, Yorgos Mavrosaridis
  •  The House That Jack Built, Molly Malene Stensgaard and Jacob Secher Schulsinger
  • Isle of Dogs, Ralph Foster and Edward Bursch
  • Suspiria, Walter Fasano
  • You Were Never Really Here, Joe Bini

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM 

  • Burning, Lee Chang-Dong (South Korea)
  • Cold War, Pawel Pawlikowski (Poland)
  • Let the Sunshine In, Claire Denis (France)
  •  Roma, Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico) 
  • Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda (Japan)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE 

  •  Burning, Mowg
  • If Beale Street Could Talk, Nicholas Brittel
  • Isle of Dogs, Alexandre Desplat
  • Suspiria, Thom Yorke
  • You Were Never Really Here, Johnny Greenwood